Disrespect, Mistrust, and Micromanagement - Project Manager Finastra Employee Review

1.0
Apr 23, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Pay can be average compared to the market, but you have to ask for it. Arcade machine was fun to play on break. The people at the "doer" level are wonderful. The corporation outside of the Mequon office seems to be going in the right direction.

Cons

Management has no trust in their employees to do their jobs and refuses to treat them like professionals. Leadership would bemoan in meetings with their team how lazy the developers were, and how "these young developers needed to be coddled". Because of the complete lack of of trust, status on *every single work item* had to be delivered to the top daily, sometimes multiple times a day. Management would often jump into things and start writing code themselves because they "know how it works because wrote the whole application". Almost every idea for innovation on both the development and management side of things were shot down, often due to leadership their lack of understanding of modern architecture and project methodology. The lack of planning, lack of process, and crushing micromanagement culminated in a pure work harder not smarter workplace. At one point last year, employees were called while on holiday vacation to cancel their break return to work. There were no training opportunities given outside of a corporation wide CBT training system. Many of the people leaving haven't even been given the common courtesy of an exit interview. It was not uncommon for people to be publicly berated or dressed down in verbal tirades heavily laced with profanity.

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